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Avior Airlines C.A. (legally ''Aviones de Oriente C.A.'') is an
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based in
Barcelona, Anzoátegui Barcelona is the capital of Anzoátegui State, Venezuela and was founded in 1671. Together with Puerto La Cruz, Lecheria and Guanta, Barcelona forms one of the most important urban areas of Venezuela, with a population of approximately 950,000. ...
,
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. It operates scheduled and charter services within Venezuela and the southern
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out of its main hub at Generál José Antonio Anzoátegui International Airport. It is currently the largest private capital airline in Venezuela in terms of fleet, destinations and its more than 1800 employees nationally and internationally.


History

Founded by Jorge Luis Añez Dager and Rafael Ciarcia Walo, the airline was established as Avior Express, and started operations on June 30, 1995, initially using a single five-seat
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for charter flights to
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and Canaima. Actually, It is totally owned by Jorge Añez Dager. In 2009, Avior Airlines had entered a bankruptcy crisis, for which most of its destinations were suspended, and their 12
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left the fleet. During the following years, Avior Airlines comes out of the crisis and began to resurface. For 2012, Avior Airlines announced the creation of a new subsidiary named
Avior Regional Avior Regional was a Venezuelan regional airline that was a subsidiary of Avior Airlines. It began operations in March 2015 with flights from Caracas to Barinas, Valera as well as Curaçao. History In 2012, after the bankruptcy and subsequent re ...
, that would cover the old routes suspended in 2009, as well as the purchase of 4
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s for international flights. In 2013, the first of them arrived and also the first
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of Avior Regional, but due to problems with the National Institute of Civil Aeronautics for the certification of the new airline, it was decided to operate the Fokker 50 while the new airline, thus reopening the destinations of Valera and Mérida until mid-2015, when they became part of Avior Regional's fleet. Since 2015, Avior had started an ambitious process of expanding its fleet and destinations, with the aim of encouraging Venezuelan air connectivity, as a result of the reduction of flights from foreign airlines to the country, it is currently the Venezuelan airline with the greater number of destinations outside of Venezuelan territory. On December 3, 2017, Avior was added to the
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, due to failing to meet their safety requirements. In December 2018, the company received the
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certification, which recognizes the operational processes and control systems of the airlines in terms of their safety. This means that Avior Airlines becomes part of a select community of airlines around the world with recognized prestige and trust, which opens up new frontiers such as the possibility of operating directly to Europe and other continents under internationally recognized operational standards.


Destinations

As of April 2022, Avior Airlines flies to the following destinations:


Fleet


Current fleet

, the Avior Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft:


Former fleet

Avior Airlines formerly operated the following aircraft:


AviorPlus

Avior Plus is Avior's exclusive frequent flyer program that accumulate air miles each time that they fly. These miles can then be spent to upgrade or purchase future flights on Avior Airlines. There are 3 levels of membership, all with varying degrees of benefits: *Silver *Gold *Black


Avior Cargo

Avior Cargo is the airline's air cargo service which operates through the routes of the Avior network with the aim of making air, business or industrial cargo shipments.


Accidents and incidents

*On July 15, 1998, a
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was hijacked by four armed masked hijackers during a domestic flight. The hijackers were among 22 people on board the aircraft, which was flying from
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to Barinas. The hijackers forced the plane to divert to a remote airstrip at a cattle ranch. The hijackers released the passengers and crew, and took the plane to
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, where it was later recovered. *On July 30, 1999, another
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(registered YV-466C) was hijacked, this time by three men and two women. The aircraft was flying from
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to
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, via Barinas. Coordinates were given to the flight crew and landed the plane in Arauca, Colombia. *On January 7, 2009, a
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(registered YV1360), flying from Oranjestad to
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, made an emergency landing after an engine fire was reported. The aircraft diverted to Simón Bolívar International Airport where the aircraft landed safely. All 81 occupants on board were uninjured. *On October 31, 2014, a
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(registered YV2946) suffered a tire burst during takeoff at General José Antonio Anzoátegui International Airport. The flight crew aborted the takeoff and the aircraft stopped with a burst and deflated tire on the left hand main landing gear. None of the 144 occupants on board were injured. *On March 3, 2018, a
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flying from
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to
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ran off the runway during landing at
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. No injuries were reported and apparently the aircraft did not suffered no structural damage. The causes of this inconvenience were mainly due to the wet track and the heavy rain that fell in the city. *On November 22, 2019, a
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(registered YV3012) was servicing a flight between
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and
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. Upon landing at
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, its right main landing gear suffered a serious malfunction causing it to collapse, which lead to an evacuation once the aircraft came to a halt. *On December 6, 2019, a
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(registered YV3011) took off at 8AM flying from
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to
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when it suffered a depressurization 45 minutes after takeoff. 133 passengers and 8 crew members on board, some people suffered a lack of oxygen including a six-month-old child who was the most affected, the aircraft had to make a sharp descent landing emergency in the city of
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, Peru. The airline enabled an aircraft to comply with the scheduled itinerary.


See also

* List of airlines of Venezuela *
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References


External links


Official website
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